Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-01
The Slave Becomes Prime Minister and
Saves His Fathers Household.
How Great Results Have Come From
Persecution,
rod Links human Events IN une ureaI
Chain for His Own Purposes.
Iniquity Cannot be Hidden--Trifes seme-
times Expose 1t.
.sTHF PRIME MINISTER"

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closed for some weeks for improve
ments and engagements the Brooklyn
tabernacle was opened to-day. The
same overwhelming throng were in at
tendance as before. The congregation
sang with great effect the hymn:
ssBefore Jehovab's awful throne
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create and he destroy"
After explaining appropriate pas
sages Of scripture DIR. Talmage took
his text from Genesis XII, Al: ''And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph: See, / have
set thee over all the land of Egypt"
The subject of the sermon was 1.-The
Prime Minister" DR.. Talmage said:
You cannot keep n good man down.
God has decreed for him a certain ele-
vation to which he's must attain. He
will bring him through though it cost
Him a thousand worlds. There are
men constantly in trouble lestthey shall
not be appreciated. Every man comes
in the end to be valued at just what he
is worth. How af'en you see men
turn out all their forces to crush n
man or set of ,alen. How do they sue
ceedP No Better than the government
that tried to crush Joseph, a Scripture
character upon which we speak to-day.
Itswould be an insult to suppose that
you were not all familiar with the life
of Joseph; how his jealous brothers
threw him into the pit, but, seeing a
caravan of Arabian merchants moving
along on their camels with spices and
gums that loaded the air with aroma,
sold their brother TO these merchants,
who carried him down into Egypt; how
Joseph was sold to Potiphar, a man Of
influence and office; how by his in.
tegrity he raised himself to high posi-
ton in the realm, until under the false
charge of a vile wretch he was hurled
into the penitentiary; how in prison he
commanded respect and confidence;
how by the Interpretation of
PHARAoH's DREAM
He was freed and became the chief
man in government, the Bismarck of
the nation; how in time Of famine JOS
eph had the control of a Storehouse
which he had filed during the seven
years of plenty; how when his brothers
who had thrown him into the PIT and
sold him into captivity applied for corn
he sent them home with their breasts
borne down under the weight of the
corn sacks; how the sin against their
brother which had so long been hidden
came out at last and was returned by
that brothers. forgiveness and kindness,
al illustrious triumph of Christian prin-
ciple.
Learn from this story in the first
place, that the world is compelled to
honor Christian character. Potiphar
was only a man of the world yet JOS
eph rose in his estimation until al the
affairs of that great house were COM
mitted to his charge From this servant
no honors or condolences were with
held. When Joseph was in prison he
son won the heart of the keeper, and,
.ough placed there for being a scoun-
irei, he SOON convinced the jailor that
.Ae was an innocent and trustworthy
man, and, released from close contine-
ment, he became a general superin-
tendent Of prison affairs. Wherever
Joseph was placed, whether "a servant
IN the house of Potipbar or a prison er
n the penitentiary, he became the first
man everywhere ard is an illustration
of the truth l lay down that the world
is compelled to honor Christian char
aeter.
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
There are those who affect to despise
q religious life. They speak of it as a
system of phlebotemy by which a man
is bled of all his courage and nobility.
They say he has bemeaned himself.
They pretend to have no more conf
dence in him since his conversion than
before his conversion. But all that il
Hypocrisy. 1t is impossible for any
man not to admire and contide in a
Christian who shows that he has really !
become a child of God and is what he
processes to be. You canno: despise d
son or a daughter of the Lord God Al
mighty. OF course half and half re-
character wins no appreciation.
Redwald, the king of the Saxons. after
Christian baptism had two affairs, one
for the worship of God and n for the
sacrifice of devils. You may have a
contempt for such men, for mere pre-
OF religion, but when yon be-
hold the excellency of Jesus .1Christ |